Background
Sonali Gudka was born in Edgware to immigrant Indian parents, her parents run a pharmacy.
Sonali Gudka was born in Edgware to immigrant Indian parents, her parents run a pharmacy.
She now occasionally presents the weekend edition of British Broadcasting Corporation World News. She currently presents British Broadcasting Corporation television programmes including Escape to the Country, The National Lottery Draws and Crimewatch. She is also a regular reporter on Watchdog.
Shah trained as a dancer for over 10 years, studying Indian classical, Indian folk and Streetdance.
Aiming for a career in medicine, Shah began presenting on the local hospital radio. After university, in early 2002 she joined British Broadcasting Corporation World Service as a producer, also presenting on World Business Report and The World Today.
She then began reporting for Weekend Business, as well as Wake Up to Money and 5 live Money. Newsround
Shah joined Newsround initially as an afternoon relief presenter.
From 2006, as part of a new team replacing Ellie Crisell and Jake Humphrey, she presented breakfast, afternoon and weekend bulletins for the show as well as presenting the main programme from 2008.
She made a number of Newsround Specials, including two documentaries from Afghanistan in 2010, which were also shown on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel. In 2011 she guest presented Match of the Day Kickabout on British Broadcasting Corporation Two, and made guest appearances on Sadie J and Blue Peter. On 9 November 2011, Shah announced she was leaving Newsround before it moved to its new base at MediaCityUK in Salford.
British Broadcasting Corporation Sport
She was one of the main reporters for the events coverage.
Also in 2011, she reported from the University Boat Race. and Wimbledon. She regularly presents a special programme for British Broadcasting Corporation One called British Olympic Dreams, broadcast since February 2011, that follows the Britain"s potential Olympic hopefuls for 2012.
She also anchored shows on British Broadcasting Corporation Three during the games as well as being stationed at Lords for the archery. British Broadcasting Corporation News
In 2009, Shah made a move to the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel"s Business News on top of Newsround.
She can be seen occasionally broadcasting in the afternoon and evening.
In August 2011, Shah moved to British Broadcasting Corporation World News. She presented the daytime bulletin on the Weekend and remains a relief presenter. In December 2011, she stood in for Rhod Sharp on Up All Night.
She focuses on British Broadcasting Corporation News and British Broadcasting Corporation Sport.
Shah was among the British Broadcasting Corporation News team for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II coverage on British Broadcasting Corporation One. Shah was a reported from the crowds at The Mall.
In May 2014, Shah became a sports reporter for Today, the daily morning news programme for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. Other
On 2 March 2013, Sonali Shah and her Newsround co-presenter Ore Oduba appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Let"s Dance for Comic Relief, dancing to "Hey Ya!" by Outkast.
They were eliminated, and did not get through to the final.
In 2014, Shah became a presenter of house-buying British Broadcasting Corporation television show Escape to the Country. Since 2015, Shah has presented The National Lottery Draws and Crimewatch. Both shows are broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation One.
In 2002 she moved to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live as launch producer for Jeff Randall’s Weekend Business, which won a Sony Radio Award. Shah also reported for Sportsround, and posted an online diary from the 2010 Commonwealth Games for the Newsround website. In 2010 Shah went to Delhi, to present coverage of the Commonwealth Games for British Broadcasting Corporation Sport on British Broadcasting Corporation One and British Broadcasting Corporation Two. She was one of three British Broadcasting Corporation presenters, along with Manish Bhasin and Rishi Persad, at the 2011 Cricket World Cup in the Indian sub-continent.
